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This is more evidence of your thinking in a vacuum... The people with more money buy more things. Inflated and elevated consumption possesses an elevated and inflated associated CO2 cost. It isn't just the air travel, private jets and super-yachts of the super-rich, but on a far more...

You might be onto something here, tony, ma boy... might be a good reason to, I dunno, erm, maybe place a slightly higher taxation on the wealthiest?

Quite. I wonder if tony ever buys anything made in China?? Nobody is an island...

Perpetually thinking in a vacuum, eh tony? What "scorn". That's not true. It's just that I discuss these things with "receipts" and evidence. It is a statement of fact. Neither derision nor congratulatory. The basic fact remains that *you enjoy the fruits* (as we all do in this country) of...

Kind of. Although separation between the (global) Economy and the (domestic) Government can mean we have a capitalist (global) Economy which is at least partly regulated by a socialist (domestic) Government. The two concepts, taken to extremes are indeed separate games, but can still work...

Good plan. A decent bushy bamboo would go well with the vertical boards, planted in a chunky pot, perhaps square-sided, so that you can get the rim positioned up against the boards.

I've had this quote on standby since my last post, awaiting the inimitable tony's response, expecting him to describe how he doesn't personally give a monkeys... So thank you for the poignant introduction: United Kingdom: The UK was the world's first industrialized nation and the first to emit...

Ah yes, the stubborn and obstreperous approach - that will surely motivate these countries to act with even more enthusiasm. Or not!

This goes out to resident tony as well. The ONLY way we can persuade those top 10 nations listed - the ONLY way - is to also agree for the UK to do something alongside them. It's a global game, and we don't just stand idly by and say - "meh - we can't help you, but YOU need to do something to...

That is what COP does. It brings the major players together in order to try to hash out an agreeable outcome for all parties. You can't do anything as a single nation. And you can't just tell one nation to buck up their ideas. It's a Team Game that we all have flesh in. Everybody needs to...

Oh - that being the case - if you can't reach to get to all of it - I would probably be minded to either leave it alone, or maybe try to "blend" the area out gradually so that the vivid lines are less visible. There is no treatment that will blend with natural ageing. Although a gentle rub...

If it were me, I'd wait until spring and jet wash the whole lot and then re-treat. Depending on the way the boards come up (possible to bring up some fluffiness on the grain), I might choose to do a quick pass with a sander in between jet-wash and re-treating. With the jet-wash, I would not...

The rest stacks up just fine. I used a variety of emphasis (call it "style" if you like) because sometimes selectively deafness or selective memory to certain things are apparent. It was also an emphasis that not only do we no longer hold any sway, but doubly so, because the UK used to be able...

Your first sentence does not chime with current observable reality. You are presenting a version of "trickle down" which at present is the other way around. The common UK citizen has had their pay and income and wealth reduced over the longer term in order to subsidise the already most wealthy.

As above - you don't "take money from the rich" - you still allow the rich to accumulate, but at a reduced rate, which still provides the incentive to accumulate and also prevents real terms reductions of the working poor.

Hospital waiting lists perhaps?

OMG what a load of old twaddle. Pretty much every single statement in there is fallacious and unfounded. Everything you wrote is basically a straw man fallacy Nobody is arguing to "strip assets" from the wealthy. The entire notion of "reducing wealth inequality" inside a Capitalist Economy...

Citation or it didn't happen. Also, as already pointed out to you - you are deliberately insulting. If all you have is insults - that signals a lack of relevant material and evidence. Counter argument - "Inevitably", each of the EU Member Nations act only their own interests and "Inevitably"...

I think you missed the point. I said it wasn't about the disagreement. I said it was about one person saying, straight up, that if you vote for "this", then "this" will have a significant negative impact on both me and you. That's not about "forming an opinion". It's about the obvious...

The vastly dominating consensus amongst academic climate scientists (who have no vested interests other than performing science) is that current rapid (rapid in comparative terms) climate change is mainly man made. The differing views are almost all produced by those with vested interests and...